AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who murdered his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson sat on death row for 14 years awaiting lethal injection. After his Feb. 5 execution, advocates are promising to keep fighting.

Police say the unnamed victim was approached by three men early Saturday morning before one of them shot him multiple times.

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Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, has appealed her conviction for years, claiming the evidence presented against her violated her due process rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

At the turn of the century in 2000, the population on Texas’ death row reached a record high of 459 inmates and officials carried out 40 executions, the most in a single year. Decades later ...

he calls on the attorney general to “further evaluate” whether or not the 37 death row inmates can be prosecuted at the state level. Hofstra law professor Eric Freedman told McClatchy News ...

Houston had its snowiest day in more than 50 ... Both individuals’ causes of death are pending verification from the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office. During a weather update Wednesday ...

She was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the Nov. 2001 and was sentenced to death. The 29-page Supreme Court ruling details how Rob Andrew was fatally shot in ...

Houston police did not release additional information about either case. It's unclear if the deaths were related to this week's cold weather. The cause of death of both victims is pending an ...